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Party animal

February 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · 2010, Uncategorized

Sure Jordan is a little young to party all the time… but she did get a chance to go to two different birthday parties over the weekend. She had a blast… But in one of the parties I watched a little girl staring at Jordan and clearly wanted to reach out and touch her arm [...]

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Letting her mourn a bit

September 29th, 2009 · 20 Comments · 2009, Little Arm, Questions, mourning

I’ve mentioned before how Jordan is recognizing her differences… I try not to make a big deal out of the little mentions here and there. But last night was difficult for me and a bit of a moment of awareness for me as a parent. Here’s the story.
I was asking Jordan to get ready for [...]

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“Everyone’s different”

July 27th, 2009 · 10 Comments · 2009, Little Arm, Questions

Jordan’s questions about her arm are coming from every direction these days — especially when you aren’t expecting it. Yesterday she was in the middle of an all out tantrum with her dad – She was saying no to everything he was asking her to do. No, I won’t wear this. No, I won’t wear [...]

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Camp No Limits!

July 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · 2009, Little Arm

The kids and I wrapped up our Camp No Limits experience yesterday. This is the first time I’ve been able to get onto my computer since then. It was the first time the camp came to Missouri – so it was very small. But there are also camps in Maine, Florida and Idaho this year. [...]

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I talked to Disney

February 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments · 2009, Disney World

A few posts ago I told everyone about an experience at Walt Disney World where I was really uncomfortable about how a bathroom attendant spoke to Jordan and I. After writing it down and hearing hearing the reaction from some of you guys in the comments here… I decided to send an email to just [...]

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